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The use of master, slave, and client are different depending on what part of the federation you are referencing so the following terms will be used:
- Instance
- XDMoD instance that contains a single copy of data (job_records, job_tasks etc…)
- Federated Slave
- Tungsten Master
- Hub
- The Federated server that contains data (job_records, job_tasks, etc…) from all members of the federation
- Tungsten Staging Server
- Federated Master
- Tungsten Slave